Michel Barnier will use article 49.3 this Monday in the National Assembly

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Will go or not go? This Monday, December 2, from 3 p.m., the examination of the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) begins in the National Assembly. A session during which the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, risks having recourse to 49.3, engaging his responsibility and that of his government to pass the text. Or not.

If a motion of censure is tabled and adopted, the government will have to resign.

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3:03 p.m. – the session is open at the National Assembly

3 p.m. – Marine Le Pen asks the government to abandon the deindexation of pensions

According to information from AFP, Marine Le Pen, leader of RN deputies, is asking the government to renounce the deindexation of pensions to escape censorship.

The MP has also tabled an amendment to this effect in the Social Security finance bill.

2:57 p.m. – For Gabriel Attal, “The French need stability”

Former Prime Minister and president of the Ensemble pour la République group of deputies Gabriel Attal called on “each and everyone to rise to the moment”.

Plunging the country into the unknown is not responsible.

2:45 p.m. – Michel Barnier will use article 49.3

Michel Barnier announced that he was going to use article 49.3 this Monday, as part of the debates on the PLFSS, thus exposing himself to censorship.

2 p.m. – What are the RN’s red lines?

On the Social Security budget, the National Rally had set three red lines: the delisting of certain medications, which was accepted by Michel Barnier, the partial deindexation of pensions to inflation, and the reduction in reductions in employer contributions. .

1:30 p.m. – Michel Barnier returns to the reimbursement of medicines

Message heard by the government, which finally “committed that there will be no delisting of medicines” in 2025, acceding to a request from the National Rally, according to a press release from Michel Barnier.

12 p.m. – Why Michel Barnier and his government will find it difficult to escape censorship

Censorship of the executive would not be “chaos”, underlined Marine Le Pen after being received by Michel Barnier on Monday, specifying that her party, the National Rally (RN), does not “take anyone by surprise “.

While according to her, the Prime Minister “held his ground” during their interview, she affirmed that the RN would “not give up defending the French”, refusing to give in “to the little music […] consisting of saying if this budget is ever refused, if there is censorship, it will be dramatic, it will be chaos.”

11 a.m. – Could Emmanuel Macron resign?

The resignation of the President, called by many political figures, on the left as well as on the right, is, however, unlikely to occur if the government was censored, as we explained in this article.

9 a.m. – LFI calls for the resignation of Emmanuel Macron

On the left, Manuel Bompard accuses the RN of wanting, through its threats, to forget its “complacency” and its “complicity” with the government by having allowed it to survive since its formation in September despite its lack of majority in the Assembly.

For the coordinator of LFI, who spoke on Sunday in Le Grand Rendez-Vous d'Europe1/CNews/Les Echos, the question is now no longer that of censorship, but of the resignation of Emmanuel Macron himself , which he considers inevitable.

“If the government of Michel Barnier falls, I think that the question that will be asked, in truth, is that of the departure of the President of the Republic,” he said.

8 a.m. – “Barring a miracle”, the RN will vote on the motion of censure

Questioned on RTL this morning, the president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, announced that “The National Rally will activate the mechanism of the vote of censure, barring a last minute miracle”. Michel Barnier has until 3 p.m. to review his copy and avoid punishment.

With AFP

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